Movies: Edward Dziewoński

Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape ...

Set in military barracks in a small town during World War I. The soldiers herded in the barracks are 'politically suspect' mix of characters from all over of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Czechs, Jews, and even Italians, but officers in charge are Ger...

A series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend....

To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck....

Nikodem Dyzma is a poor dancer who comes to Warsaw to find a job. The problem is that nobody wants to hire him. One day he finds an invitation to the party with very important people and decides to attend. A small accident at the party makes him the ...

Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of interpreter, but her loved ones are much less fortunate....

Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house....

The story of Polish and Jewish families living side by side in one Warsaw street. Everything changes once and for all with the Nazi invasion....

A young hairstylist leaves her husband and joins a group of working women....

A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away....

A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed....

A Polish-born Australian businessman arrives in Poland to find a wife for himself....

A group of middle-aged men takes a bus trip to the Black Sea, having to put up with the border guard, accommodation and their guide, a film school student....

The film evokes a childhood in rural Lithuania between the wars. A country boy, Tomaszek, lives on a rich estate, situated on the Polish border. He realizes that the Issa Valley he lives in is to be torn apart by internal political conflicts and unre...

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A mother is looking for her missing child, with whom she lost contact while in a concentration camp. The film was completed in 1948, but it was banned from distribution by the government, until finally releasing in 1991....

While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can work as hard as men...

A new employee has to deal with the horrors of bureaucracy in this satirical short poking fun at the insititutions of the Polish People's Republic....

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A former World War 2 resistance fighter returns to Poland to reconnect with his old comrades, but finds out they have moved on with their lives and have no time for him....